WHAT HAPPENED ON 3. APRIL
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According to the Fasti Triumphales, Roman consul Publius Postumius Tubertus celebrated an ovation for a military victory over the Sabines. (3. April 503. BC)

Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul. (3. April 686)

Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. (3. April 1043)

The first Parliament of Friuli is created. (3. April 1077)

The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars. (3. April 1559)

The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason. (3. April 1834)

The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins. (3. April 1860)

American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. (3. April 1865)

American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford. (3. April 1882)

Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design. (3. April 1885)

The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs. (3. April 1888)

The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. (3. April 1895)

Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (3. April 1922)

RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line. (3. April 1929)

First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston (3. April 1933)

Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh. (3. April 1936)

World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. (3. April 1942)

Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March. (3. April 1946)

President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries. (3. April 1948)

In Jeju, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre. (3. April 1948)